Comparing Configurations

You can compare two configurations and highlight their differences by opening the resulting design hierarchy side-by-side in a tree view.

To perform the comparison, you specify two configurations that are to be compared and traverse through their hierarchies. The traversal results are saved in the traversal output files, which are then compared to highlight differences between them.

Perform the following step to compare configurations:

1. Choose File – Compare Configs.
   The Compare Config form appears.
2. Click OK to perform the comparison.
3. Click Defaults to populate the form fields with the default values from the hed.env registry file.

The comparison results are displayed in tkdiff.The output is displayed in a text format in a graphical tree structure and differences are highlighted. The traversal results for the same configuration can be different if you specify different values for the options. The options and their values are displayed in the traversal header as highlighted in the figure above.